Improvement in lamps



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SOLOMON P. SMITH, OF WATE RFORD, NE W YORK.

12mm Patent No. 89,696, dated May 4,1869. Y

DEPROVBMENT IN LAIMPS.

Ike Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, SOLOMON P. SMITH, ofWaterford, in the county of Saratoga, and State of New York, haveinvented a new and improved Lamp; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, making a part of this specification, in which-- fi Figure 1 isa vertical section through line 3 y of fi Figure 2 is a horizontalsection through line a: a: of

The object of this invention is to provide, for public use, a lamp, inwhich a blast of air is supplied to intensify combustion, the partswhich create and sustain the blast being so constructed as to operatewithout any of that disagreeable rattling and clattering that hasheretofore prevented lamps constructed on the blast principle fromcoming into general use.

In the drawings A representsthe body of the lamp;

B, the wick; and p O, the air-passage around the body of the lamp, fromthe base to the top, through which currents of atmospheric air,-received at the holes 0 c in the base, are forced to the wick, by meansof the mechanism hereinafter described.

Attached to the base by flanges, a a, and screws, a a, is asupporting-plate, D, which sustains the working-mechanism that createsthe blast.

E is the frame of the clock-work. F, the spring.

G, the great wheel.

12 'r, the pawl and ratchet.

K, thekey-spindle.

H I J L, gear wheels, by which the motion of the great wheel,multiplied. many hundred times, is comconnected with the body of thelamp only in two places, to wit, at the flanges a a and the sides of thecylinder 0.

At these bearing-points, I accordingly insert rubher, felt, or othersimilar material, an m, between the wall A and the clock-work frame andbase-plate, so that the jar and vibrations, if any, of the clock-workand its frame, shall not be communicated to the sonorous body of thelamp, by which they would be greatly increased, but shall be entirelyconfined within the interior space at the bottom of the lamp. The wallsof the lamp, therefore, instead of strengthening the vibrations of theworking-mechanism, as heretofore, act

ually prevent their being heard, thereby obviating the diificultyheretofore experienced in connection with this class of lamps.

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a lamp, provided with a blast-apparatus, the employment of rubber, orother packing, m nt, inserted between theclock-work and the walls of thelamp, to deaden the sound, substantially as described.

To the above specification of my improvement, I

v have set my hand, this 8th day of February, 1869.-

1 SOLOMON 1?. SMITH. Witnesses:

' CHAS. A. PETTIT,

.SOLON 0. KEMON.

